Mirkwood module

Huinen   M105 : HUINEN™ the Seer

Huinen the Seer is an ancient Noldorin Elf, who dwelled in southern Mirkwood until the dying days of the Third Age. His origins are unclear, though he may have been one of the Exiles who followed Feanor to Middle Earth in the Elder Days. He was once the Grey Elf Oropher’s friend and confidant, it can be presumed that he followed that Sindarin prince east following the War of Wrath.

By most lights, Huinen was quite insane. He wandered the woodlands as a stooped hermit, his great size obscured by his thick cloaks and mad-man’s shambling stride. Some would contend that this was merely a facade, that the ancient Noldor was very much in possession of his wits, and used his disguise to oppose the Necromancer. Others suspected that while he may well have opposed the Necromancer, his will was broken and his mind with it.

Travellers tales credit the Seer with rescuing lost mortals from certain doom – or waylaying others from their path; in either case, all that the travellers remembered was a dim recollection of food and wine and then awakening on the forest floor in full daylight.

Huinen dwelled at Ceber Fanuin, a lonely and beautiful Elven fortress in the hills of southern Mirkwood. The wise are unclear as to where it was. Some say it was a mere 70 leagues from Amon Lanc, others that it was further north, a spire carved from the stone of the Mountains of Mirkwood.

What befell Huinen is unknown, but at least one source says that he followed Gildor Inglorion to Rivendell, and from there to the Grey Havens, and then home into the Uttermost West.

Lachglin   M107 : LACHGLIN™ the Animist

At the source of the Enchanted River of Mirkwood, there lies a tower. Sarn Goriwing, the Wood Elves call it, and though it lies close to their realm, they dare not approach. There is a power there, and the power corrupts the river. The tower is the home of Lachglin the Loremaster, one of the Dark Lord’s minions.

Lachglin was once accounted amongst the wise, a Dunadan Loremaster of Arthedain, a student of the Seers of Fornost. But like many others who studied the arts of far seeing and magic, he was tempted by the darkness. Lachglin fell into the Witch King’s snares, and for decades he was the Witch King’s spy in Fornost Erain. His treachery was discovered, but Lachglin fled with his life. From Angmar, he was sent to Dol Guldur. At the feet of the Necromancer, he learned the arts of sorcery and enchantment. He was an apt pupil. Proving himself, he was given the task of claiming Sarn Goriwing. There was an old power there, and he set about calling it forth again.

The Dark Lord gave his minion one more gift, the Dindair demon, the Silent Shadow.

The Enchanted River flowed dark again, thick with bewitchment and dreams.

Lachglin the Animist remained at Sarn Goriwing for the remainder of the Third Age. He was a power of the darkness set against the realm of Thranduil for a thousand years. Lachlin’s sorcery and his bound demon and the power of the Enchanted River kept Lachglin ageless. Lachlin was driven out of Sarn Goriwing early in the 4th Age, though he himself remained a threat for long years of men after.